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GoldenBearHockey said:
You guys do realize Forbort is playing with Doughty because that's what Doughty wanted.....right?
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Would prefer not to have Forbort with Doughty but honestly that pairing is the least of our problems. Drew Doughty dragged the corpse of Rob Scuderi to respectability, I don't care if he has a drunk monkey with a wonky back next to him. I'm more worried about the complete lack of chemistry amongst the rest and Stevens' insane desire to run out as many leftys on their backhands as he can.

No one in their right mind watched anything but Game 2 of the first round last year and said "you know, Fantenberg playing on his wrong side is going to help this team in many ways."
 
It's going to take drafting for offense and transition players for the next five years to turn over. That's what it takes for a wholesale organization change. Not a couple mid level NHL players like Iaffalo etc.

I am talking hitting home runs in the 1-2nd rounds consistently.
 
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Yeah Doughty said "handicap me" and they gave him Forbort.

In all seriousness, the ideal pairing for Doughty is undoubtedly Brickley.
 
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Sol said:
Yeah Doughty said "handicap me" and they gave him Forbort.

In all seriousness, the ideal pairing for Doughty is undoubtedly Brickley.
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Based on the less than 5 games of professional hockey Brickley has played? I have a future superstar in Chris Kontos I would love to sell to you.

Dont get me wrong I love the potential of Brickley and he looks good but he could be Joe Piskula for all we know.
 
Reaper45 said:
Based on the less than 5 games of professional hockey Brickley has played? I have a future superstar in Chris Kontos I would love to sell to you.

Dont get me wrong I love the potential of Brickley and he looks good but he could be Joe Piskula for all we know.
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Hes showed more potential in 5 games than Forbort has in 3 years.
 
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Reaper45 said:
Based on the less than 5 games of professional hockey Brickley has played? I have a future superstar in Chris Kontos I would love to sell to you.

Dont get me wrong I love the potential of Brickley and he looks good but he could be Joe Piskula for all we know.
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Hey, hey, hey Kontos almost won a Connie in the first round of the playoffs!!
 
damacles1156 said:
It's going to take drafting for offense and transition players for the next five years to turn over. That's what it takes for a wholesale organization change. Not a couple mid level NHL players like Iaffalo etc.

I am talking hitting home runs in the 1-2nd rounds consistently.
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Will it finally be time to trade Jeff Carter this season if the Kings are having another also-ran year?
 
Reaper45 said:
Based on the less than 5 games of professional hockey Brickley has played? I have a future superstar in Chris Kontos I would love to sell to you.

Dont get me wrong I love the potential of Brickley and he looks good but he could be Joe Piskula for all we know.
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I can't find it but I remember reading an article on questions for one of the Kings management and they talked about Brickley being Forbort's replacement. That having Brickley gives them the option to trade a guy like Forbort if they find a trade that makes the team better
 
Holy hell it's a good thing a lot of you guys have zero input in player personnel choices, Kings are icing a solid, deep team this year, when you have Toffoli and Pearosn on the 3rd line wings, that's a deep team, they are putting Kempe in a position to succeed on the wing, like all of you wanted, and yet, you guys still bitch and whine.... It's a much deeper team than last year, and the year before, but based on pre-season, where no on one the ice cares about winning, it's about getting timing back, back into game shape, for younger players or bubble players, it's about making the roster, based on that, we are back to doom and gloom ffs....business as usual it seems.
 
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KINGS17 said:
Will it finally be time to trade Jeff Carter this season if the Kings are having another also-ran year?
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If through 1/4 of the season it becomes apparent they aren't going to fire Stevens, yeah. Blow it up. At least he can lead us to a good tank.


KingsOfCali25 said:
I can't find it but I remember reading an article on questions for one of the Kings management and they talked about Brickley being Forbort's replacement. That having Brickley gives them the option to trade a guy like Forbort if they find a trade that makes the team better
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I doubt it was about Forbort specifically and more the archetype of "big vanilla LHD" we are full of in this org but makes a lot of sense
 
GoldenBearHockey said:
Holy hell it's a good thing a lot of you guys have zero input in player personnel choices, Kings are icing a solid, deep team this year, when you have Toffoli and Pearosn on the 3rd line wings, that's a deep team, they are putting Kempe in a position to succeed on the wing, like all of you wanted, and yet, you guys still ***** and whine.... It's a much deeper team than last year, and the year before, but based on pre-season, where no on one the ice cares about winning, it's about getting timing back, back into game shape, for younger players or bubble players, it's about making the roster, based on that, we are back to doom and gloom ffs....business as usual it seems.
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The negativity on this board since 2012 exceeds the negativity from 2006-2011. Mind blowing really.
 
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Bummer with Kurtis MacD. Great teammate and showed a lot of improvement.

If they lose him, it makes the Kings a lot softer especially on the back end. There are too many d men of the same pedigree back there...Clague, Brickley, Fantenberg. I know the league is changing to faster but you have to have one guy at least who is filling to clear the front and punish big forwards. For now, that is Phaneuf.

Clifford is tough, but can’t take on the Reaves of the world.
 
but we only had one win in preseason when no one else cared about winning. I predict we go 0-82.....if we win a game, it's over for all of ya'll!
 
Martyros said:
but we only had one win in preseason when no one else cared about winning. I predict we go 0-82.....if we win a game, it's over for all of ya'll!
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Vegas sure cared :laugh:

My only hope at this point is that historically the preseason standings flip flop, so we should be pursuing a president's trophy.

Really I don't care about the preseason results, I care aboutthe process, and minus the kids, the process sucked.
 
Johnny Utah said:
Bummer with Kurtis MacD. Great teammate and showed a lot of improvement.

If they lose him, it makes the Kings a lot softer especially on the back end. There are too many d men of the same pedigree back there...Clague, Brickley, Fantenberg. I know the league is changing to faster but you have to have one guy at least who is filling to clear the front and punish big forwards. For now, that is Phaneuf.

Clifford is tough, but can’t take on the Reaves of the world.
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There is only one Reaves and outside of fighting he's pretty much useless.

Clifford has shown he can have good scraps with legit heavy weights like Engelland, Gazdic, etc.

Plus we have enough toughness in the line-up with guys like Phaneuf, Thompson, Brown, etc.
 
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